With this reprint of Edwin Miller Fogel's (1874-1949) major collection of Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans (1929), readers from both the United States and the German-speaking countries will once again have at their disposal a book that contains about two thousand proverbs derived from the oral tradition of the Pennsylvania Germans. Most of these German dialect proverbs were brought to America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by immigrants from the Rhenish Palatinate and southern Germany as well as northern Switzerland. The proverbs are ample proof that German folk speech is still in use among their descendants. This proverbial wisdom is of great sociolinguistic value for the study of an American minority as well as for comparative dialect and proverb studies. A detailed introduction and an extensive bibliography have been added by the editor.
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«Wolfgang Mieder has done a great service by bringing the original collection and supplement together in a single volume and adding an introduction and bibliography. Indeed, Mieder provides a model for the handling of reprinted volumes...American folklife and proverb scholars probably don't know Fogel as well as they should. With his skilled handling of this edition, Mieder has, it is hoped, begun to remedy that state of affairs.» (Simon J. Bronner, Proverbium)
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978-3-906753-80-5 (9783906753805)
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The Author: Edwin Miller Fogel was born on May 29, 1874, in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in German in 1907 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He taught German there from 1904 to 1928, being active in various organizations such as the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. In addition to publishing numerous articles on the language and history of the Pennsylvania Germans, he is the author of two major books. Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans (1915) is based on his dissertation, and Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans (1929) is the result of careful field research among dialect speakers in Pennsylvania. Edwin Fogel died on December 16, 1949, in his hometown and among the people whom he had studied all his life.
